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The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist country. Born out of an autonomous youth movement that emerged in 1917, the Komsomol eventually became the last link in a chain of Soviet socializing agencies which organized the young. Based on extensive archival research and building upon recent research on Soviet youth, this book broadens our unders.

Abstract
The famous Pioneer camp 'Artek' was used by the Soviet Union to showcase socialism to upcoming generations. It was an iconic space where each summer 5,000 children from over 60 nations met to promote transnational cooperation and Soviet-led world peace. The article reconstructs American children's experiences who dared to break through the iron curtain to participate. It will examine how, and with what success, the participants' encounters challenged and shaped their perceptions of East and West, and how their actions fed into the upsurgence of citizen diplomacy that played a crucial role in ending the Cold War.

The article discusses the complex interaction between national mobilization during World War I and children. The focus is on children and teenagers living in Kyiv, a border region of the Russian Empire, who were amongst the first children to be affected by the war. The purpose of the study is to examine the ways in which children and adolescents were integrated into the military culture in the city during the general mobilization period and the very nature of their direct participation in this war. The materials of contemporary pedagogical research will be used to reconstruct children's experiences during that time as well as their emotional response to military culture in the first two years of the war.

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration and translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One Competing projects of Ukraine -- 1 'Above Kyiv there is a Golden Hum': The National Revolution in Kyiv -- 2 In search of 'a blue Savoy': The Bolshevik revolution in Kharkiv -- Part Two Debating Soviet culture in Ukraine -- 3 Towards Soviet literature in Ukrainian -- 4 Defending Soviet Ukrainian literature -- Part Three Fitting in the Soviet canon -- 5 'Ukraine or Little Russia': The battle for cultural autonomy in 1926 -- 6 State appropriation of literature during the first Five-Year Plan -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.